Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix, #2


	Slavoj Žižek on the Matrix, #2

enbar

1-19-2008 2:20 AM

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popular_culture, film, commentary, criticism, psychology, politics, 9-11, violence, !toread

enbar says:

Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.

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1-19-2008 9:18 AM

abailart

Thank you kindly for both clips.

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